Frog in the Well

After watching for a while, the people around began to stir.

“What… what’s going on?”

“Why has she hit so many times, and she can’t even break a wooden sword?”

“Use the blade to chop, doesn’t she know how to chop a tree? What are you doing?”

Olivia Bradley also wanted to know what was going on.

She had already swung her sword more than thirty times, and had used the blade to chop at least ten times.

But no matter how close the combat, she couldn’t break the wooden sword.

Not only that, but she, with her excellent dynamic vision, also astonishingly discovered one thing—the wooden sword didn’t even have a chip!

Not even wood shavings were falling off!

How was this possible!

“Could it be that this is the first time you’ve faced an opponent you can see?”

Of course not.

There were still experts at school, such as the Sun Knight, Sai Jasper, whom she had never won against… but that was because she couldn’t even hit the lines on the other’s weapon.

This was the first time that she had clearly hit an object’s lifeline, but still hadn’t been able to damage the object.

‘Could it be that she has always been wrong?’

“Calm down, look carefully, have you really hit it?”

Hearing these words, Olivia stopped swinging her sword, took a deep breath, and then attacked again.

This time, she still swung quickly, but the sword path was very direct.

She was looking more carefully than ever before, and Ryan also cooperated exceptionally, meeting her sword.

Then, just as the blade of the rapier was about to hit the lifeline of the wooden sword, she was surprised to find that the lifeline of the wooden sword had changed, and moved a little to the side.

The two sides emitted a sound that was almost like iron weapons colliding with each other.

But neither the wooden sword nor her rapier were damaged.

How was this possible?

Olivia was stunned.

“No, why are you just staring at those lines and dots? Some of them are useless, right? You’re actually a bit unsuited.”

Olivia was shocked by Ryan’s words.

Dots?

He could actually see dots like her master?

And what did he mean by not just looking at the lines and dots?

“Watch carefully.”

Ryan attacked for the first time.

Olivia immediately discovered that the other party was cutting at three lines on her rapier.

However, an amazing thing happened.

When she was halfway through swinging her sword, Ryan suddenly deflected his sword, and the thirteen lines on the rapier instantly decreased to nine.

“What?”

Olivia subconsciously dodged, to prevent the other party from swinging and hitting her lines.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, her nine lines suddenly changed position, and became six lines.

Ryan completely, smoothly cut off one of the lines.

“Buzz!”

Olivia received a huge force on her hand, as if she had been hit hard by a hammer, and then she felt that the structure of her rapier was damaged in some places.

Although it didn’t affect its use, her sword would break after two or three more times.

“You…”

“No…it’s that you changed the sword’s momentum, the sword’s center of gravity, and the strength, causing the lifelines to also change…”

Olivia understood somewhat, but her face was even more surprised.

“What lifeline? You haven’t reached that level yet, you don’t need to aim too high. At best, you’ve only seen the best route to damage an object, the lifeline is not such a simple thing, and it is definitely not just destruction.”

After saying that, Ryan attacked again.

This time, Olivia learned her lesson, constantly correcting the strength and fine-tuning the position of the falling sword.

She also managed to make the sword’s lifeline avoid the attack, but for some reason, this time’s confrontation made her sword heavier.

It was as if someone had poured lead on the sword.

It was as if the sword was resisting her.

“Your last sword!”

Again!

Olivia once again swung her sword to avoid the destruction of the lines.

This time, she was surprised to find that the previously damaged part…

Had actually been repaired!

“Of course, it’s not a repair without any cost. Your sword’s lifespan is being consumed.”

With another sword, some parts of Olivia’s sword became dull, while other parts of the blade became sharper.

At this moment, she completely understood—she was just a “frog in a well.”

“From the moment of ‘opening her eyes,’ she thought it was the whole world.
How laughable.”

‘What the hell, isn’t this being beaten by a giant beast?’

“Wow, she actually admitted defeat, is this really that battle maniac?”

“So those people on Blue Star are not trustworthy at all, they only know how to fight among themselves, good at internal wars, but not good at external wars!”

“I said long ago that female knights have no future, you still don’t believe it.”

But to be honest, they were just using belittling Olivia to cover up the fear in their hearts.

Olivia used to be, if not the invincible hand in the academy, also the academy’s recognized “gatekeeper”—anyone who couldn’t beat Olivia was not qualified to say that they were a “knight genius.”

Moreover, in the past two years, only a dozen or so people had won against Olivia, and many of them were graduates, and several had already graduated in June…

Although this kind of thing didn’t violate the Heavenly Law and was presented to the higher-ups, this time’s competition was to limit the strength to below the knight level!

From this, it could be seen that Ryan’s swordsmanship level was, if not the first, then in the top ten even at the knight level.

If there were no restrictions, his strength would return to the Heavenly Knight level…

I’m afraid most of the graduates in the school would not be his opponents.

Ryan is a noob? A showoff?

It would be harmful for them to send themselves to their deaths!

Now, many people were thinking about finding the guy who spread the rumors as soon as possible and beating him up.

Of course, if you say they just gave up like that, that wouldn’t be the case.

But next time they take action, they will naturally take the difference in strength into account.

Is it only possible to invite masters who can deal with Ryan out,
I don’t know who that sucker will be.

For example, the one who has been clearly showing her affection for the Crown Prince since she entered the school yesterday…

As the onlookers dispersed with a rustle, Flora quickly ran to the person in the field.

Flett was stunned for a moment and followed.

“I lost, thank you for your guidance, Your Highness Ryan.”

Olivia said with a dazed expression.

But these weren’t insincere words or polite words.

“Work hard.”

Ryan said calmly.

Olivia nodded blankly, walked to a slightly further position, even when her two friends came to comfort her, she only showed a smile on the surface, and her eyes were still empty.

“Your Highness Ryan, thank you.”

Flora said quickly.

These weren’t insincere words or polite words either.

But after this competition, Olivia had truly reached the top.

As for before, it was just that she had gone astray.

“It seems that the risks in this world are still very high…there are actually people who have been stuck in such a shallow place.”

Ryan turned his head and looked at Flett, who didn’t understand the situation at all, “You too, don’t be misled by the newly acquired abilities in the future.”

“Can I also reach the level of Miss Bradley in the future?”

Flett quickly became happy. Olivia had a bad reputation in the school, but that was because people despised knights and her Monitor family status.

A normal person with her level would have been walking sideways in the school long ago.

Not only would no one dare to bully her, but there would even be a large group of people admiring her.

[This guy’s somewhat twisted optimism is still worth affirming.]

Seeing that someone was not frightened but full of expectations for the future, Ryan smiled, although he did not approve of Flett’s cowardice when bullying others.

“What are you planning to do next?”

Noticing that Flora’s eyes were always staring at the departing silver-haired girl, Ryan asked again,

“I will personally guide her”, Flora said with determination.